HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 82, 3 October 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

LIVE CATTLE TRADE. REUNION OF THE CHURCHES'. THE TIMES ON FEDERATION. A FRENCH EDITOR IN TROUBLE. | Per Press Association ! London, Oct 2. The owners of the Southern Cross have decided to have the vessel insulated with a view of carrying 70,000 carcases of mutton between Australia and England. At the Congregational Conference at Brighton, the Rev. Mr Thomas, of Bristol, who presided, said the reunion of the churches was not withiu measurable distance, while the Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Vaughan maintained the present claims. The Times considers the proposal of the Imperial Federation Defence Committee a mischievous one, and that, until the Empire is organised on a federal basis, is calculated to impair the present maritime security in the colonies. The wheat market is quiet. New Zealand wheat, long-berried, is worth 26s 6d per 496 lbs ; New Zealand wheat, average, is worth 25s 6d per 4961b5. "Wheat and flour quotations nominal. Experts have informed Sir S. Samuel that the passion fruit, apples, oranges, and lemons treated with a solution invented by Mr Parker of Sydney, have arrived in excellent condition without special packing. As the gluey substance on the skins affects the sale, the experiment cannot yet be considered sufficiently tried. Mrs Langtry claims forty thousand from the bank which gave up her jewels on a forged order. News has been received that the Bishop of Naples has been drowned in Lake Nyassa. The Board of Agriculture declines to permit tlie Buteshire's sheep to leave the port of landing. Paris, October 1. France has received full satisfaction for the attack on the mission, and the assault on the Bishop atLzcheun. Senator Maquer, editor of the Leueuement, who was charged with accepting a bribe of 10,000 francs in connection with the South of France railway scandal, and was said to have made his escape from Paris concealed in a basket containing dirty linen, has returned to Paris. Ho was immediately arrested, and will be charged with the offence. President Fame will attend M. Pasteur's funeral.